Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be relied on to work well in the United Kingdom ? |
| 2 | Helen who had been there years and years , knew all the ropes , could be relied on to deal tactfully with difficult customers , with the intransigence of the county library system , with errant books and tiresome children . |
| 3 | She watched him go , realizing it was weeks since they had sat down for dinner together without an interruption , and over a week since they had made love . |
| 4 | Felawnah , supplemented along with Dayflower earlier in the week , finished fourth , the same place she occupied in the Newmarket equivalent . |
| 5 | At the end of the match Comte Ghislain de Vogüé of Moët et Chandon , who had come over from France especially for the match and the luncheon that preceded it ; and Viscountess Marchwood , wife of the managing director of Moët et Chandon UK , presented the Moët et Chandon prizes , and Miss Liz Kershaw the publisher of Harpers & Queen presented the Harpers & Queen trophy . |
| 6 | However , the sequence of somite formation and what they will form seems to be programmed early in development long before the somites themselves appear and provides a good example of how , once the programme is specified , the cells follow it even when they are placed in abnormal relationships . |
| 7 | Wembley was witnessing a classic … the drama thundered on … three goal scoring chances were conjured up by Swindon only to be magiced away by Leicester … |
| 8 | If we went high enough to use a ‘ chute we 'd be picked up on radar immediately after taking off . ’ |
| 9 | One friend was Randolph Churchill , who had come out to Cairo originally with Layforce and had then been given a job of liaison with the press . |
| 10 | EIGHT Yorkshire miners , trapped for 15 hours behind thousands of tons of rock , coal and twisted steel half a mile underground , are expected back at work today after what British Coal described as ‘ a stunningly successful ’ rescue operation . |
| 11 | Aid worker Rod Jones was expected back in Middlesbrough today after an arduous trip to take milk to Romanian babies . |
| 12 | The dummy was dropped back to Steve yesterday at the printers and that 's now gon na be done . |
| 13 | Mastery of the skies over large parts of Germany had already passed to the allies in 1942 , and heavy raids , chiefly by the Royal Air Force , had been carried out on cities mainly in northern and north-western Germany ( Hamburg , Lübeck , Rostock , Cologne , Essen , Bremen , and others ) . |
| 14 | This understanding of the role of education can partly be explained by the experience of the literacy campaign which was carried out throughout Nicaragua shortly after the revolution . |
| 15 | Other important investigations were carried out by Phillips alone into the determination of alcoholic strength and the use of methyl alcohol to denature ethanol . |
| 16 | A recent study carried out by Management Today of the top 250 performing companies , highlights Rentokil at No. 46 . |
| 17 | Implementation of such agreements will be carried out in accordance either with the procedure and practices specific to management and labour and in the member state . |
| 18 | Present as each crisis arose , its footage from around the world was sought eagerly by stations both at home and abroad . |
| 19 | Her sister was fond of animals too , but had never had very much to do with them and had moved away from home just after her eighteenth birthday . |
| 20 | The work is founded on the principle that each of the dead should be commemorated individually by name either on the headstone on the grave or by an inscription on a memorial . |
| 21 | That is a child who has grown up with books instead of wallpaper . |
| 22 | Joe had met up with Benny again on one of his rare trips to his old haunts and offered him a job , which Benny was glad to accept . |
| 23 | Now that the horses are turned out to pasture again after the winter , the Fargelanda ‘ home guard ’ is again mobilised , and others are being organised all over western Sweden . |
| 24 | The two plots were also very predictable , because we all knew that Carrie would not be accepted back into society just from going to the ball . |
| 25 | MOTORISTS were made late for work yesterday by a llama which wandered from its farm on to the A22 at Forest Row , Sussex . |
| 26 | The wing had stopped off in Germany merely for some flaps to be fitted . |
| 27 | UN flies bodies home THE BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen were flown home to Pakistan yesterday as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days ’ . |
| 28 | Better prospects had by now opened up for Charles elsewhere with the death of Pippin of Aquitaine in December 838 . |
| 29 | Fan-assisted flue ducts allow some fires to be used up to 4m away from the outside wall — they are often skirting flues , which run along a skirting board to an outside wall , and an be used to complement a limited range of conventional fires . |
| 30 | That so much of the Rio Maas was opened out by sandschooner instead of by plane and caterpillar truck was probably exactly for that reason : because it was a distinctly more perilous way of going about it . |